George W. Wilson

"GEORGE W. WILSON, nurseryman, P. O. Flora Dale, was born April 6, 1830, and is a son of William B. and Mary (Wierman) Wilson. He enlisted in the Union Army in 1861; was appointed first lieutenant of Company G, One Hundredth and Thirty- eighth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and served with the company and regiment until the summer of 1864, when he was detached from his regiment and given command of the Second Brigade, Third Division of Sharpshooters of the Sixth Army Corps, serving until January 7, 1865, when he was discharged on account of physical disability. In September, 1853, he married Margaret Porter, of Gettysburg, a daughter of John Porter, of Martinsburg, Va. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson have had five children: William B., who married Ollie J. Van Lear, and died at Pittsburgh, Penn., February 7, 1886; B. F. Wilson, now a nurseryman at Bendersville; John E., a jeweler at Pittsburgh, and Charles S., who lives at home. Mr. Wilson was formerly a Republican, but, being a strong temperance man, acts with the Prohibition party."